Russia strikes Ukraine based on satellite photos it buys from American companies – The Atlantic with reference to the Ukrainian military
An unnamed Ukrainian military source told The Atlantic’s Graham Wood that he believed Russian cruise missile strikes on Ukraine were being directed using satellite imagery provided by…
SpaceX is building a network of spy satellites for the Pentagon – Reuters
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a secret contract with the US intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program told Reuters…
SpaceX launched three Falcon 9s in less than a day, and two of them in a record time of 1 hour 51 minutes.
Less than a day after launching a crew to the ISS, SpaceX delivered 53 commercial satellites (including an innovative spacecraft to monitor methane emissions) and 23 Starlink…
The ADRAS-J satellite, designed to combat space debris, entered orbit and headed for its target
On February 18, Rocket Lab successfully launched the ADRAS-J satellite of the Japanese company Astroscale into space using the Electron rocket. ADRAS-J is a demonstration satellite intended…
SpaceX has launched military satellites to track Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday carrying two prototype satellites for the Missile Defense Agency and…
Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons, but “there is no direct threat”
The Biden administration, citing intelligence, has confirmed that Russia is indeed creating anti-satellite weapons — although so far they are “not active and do not pose an…
PACE is a new NASA climate mission studying microplankton and aerosols from space
The satellite will help space agency scientists assess the health of the world’s oceans, climate change and air quality. The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem) mission…
The US military will launch 54 satellites to track new generation missiles
Partner of the Military Tech chapter? The Pentagon has selected contractors to build much of its satellites for the next-generation missile tracking system, but efforts to detect…
How crowded are the oceans? The new maps show what has so far been off the radar
Advances in artificial intelligence and satellite imagery have helped scientists create the clearest map yet of human activity at sea, revealing hidden fishing vessels, oil rigs and…
China launched Beidou satellites and landed a rocket booster directly on residential buildings.
There were no casualties, but the gas that came out of the booster can cause serious harm to health. The Long March 3B carrying the Yuanzheng-1 booster…
L3Harris to launch 16 space trackers to track hypersonic missiles aimed at US
Chapter partner? In 2022, the defense contractor won a $700 million contract from the US Space Agency to manufacture tracking satellites for missiles scheduled for launch in…
China’s Space Pioneer successfully launched the liquid-fueled Tianlong-2 rocket into orbit
It is the first Chinese private space company to achieve orbit with a liquid-fueled rocket. Tianlong-2 launched from the transport and assembly facility at the Jiuquan Satellite…
Closer than satellites: an asteroid flew over the Earth at a distance of 3.5 thousand km – this is one of the closest flybys in the entire history of observations
On January 26, 2023, asteroid BU flew over the edge of South America only 3,500 km from the Earth – this distance is 10 times closer than…
In Antarctica, a new (66th) colony of emperor penguins was tracked by the accumulation of their excrement from space
Scientists have discovered a new colony of emperor penguins in Antarctica with the help of satellites, which showed accumulations of bird excrement. The colony, like others, faces…
Virgin Orbit failed the first launch from the UK spaceport – the LauncherOne rocket did not reach orbit and lost 9 satellites
January 9, 2023 – a day that should have been historic for the British space industry – will unfortunately only be remembered for the failure of Virgin…
SpaceX launched the EOS SAT-1 satellite into space (the first from the agro-oriented EOSDA constellation), developed and created in Ukraine
On January 3, during the Transporter-6 mission, SpaceX launched into space not only the Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-HP-30, but also the first satellite of the EOSDA constellation of…
SpaceX launched 114 satellites simultaneously. Among them is the Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-HP-30, which was created at KPI named after Igor Sikorsky
Today, January 3, SpaceX launched the first Falcon 9 rocket in 2023. The Transporter-6 mission is worth putting 114 satellites into low Earth orbit at once. One…
The US Senate passed a bill on the elimination of space debris in orbit
On December 21, the US Senate unanimously passed the Orbital Stability Act, and the document still needs to be approved by Congress. According to reports from SpaceNews,…
Europe’s Vega C rocket fails on second flight – two Airbus Pléiades Neo optical satellites lost
A medium-tonnage Vega C rocket with a Ukrainian-made engine launched from a European spaceport to Kourou, French Guiana, on December 20 with two satellites for Airbus. The…
The number of active Starlink subscribers reached 1 million
Starlink satellite Internet is used by 1,000,000 people around the world. The service is available on all 7 continents: almost all of the USA, most of Europe…
The NOAA-21 satellite sent back the first images of Earth from the VIIRS instrument: the snow-capped Himalayas, the turquoise Caribbean Sea and smog clouds over India.
NOAA-21 sent back the first images obtained by the VIIRS instrument, showing stunning views of the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, the snow-capped Himalayas and smog…
After a series of failures and scandals, the CMU dismissed Volodymyr Taftai from the post of head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine
In December, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the conclusions regarding the evaluation of official activities in 2022 of civil servants of category A. They include…
The solar sail LightSail 2 burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere after 3.5 years of experimental “swimming” in space
The LightSail 2 spacecraft proved the possibility of space flights using only solar energy. In 2015, Planetary Society engineers launched an early version of the LightSail 1…